RUSSIA: Finnish Finish

Last week the Finnish delegation to Moscow went home with corns
and cool heels on its diplomatic feet from having patiently attended
the Soviet Foreign Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in
not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as
seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M.
Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that
could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates
left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently
broke down...